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I morally disagree with censorship and ripping creators from their works.

Apparently they threw a fit over getting pushback and removed negative reviews too.

Mechanically, this either lands with you or you bounce right off. GBO2 is incredibly heavy, and there's a lot satisfying about slamming that weight into someone. Getting slammed yourself, it sucks, especially if you don't know how to use your tools to push back.
Playerbase, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate every only-technically-human-being who plays this game. There's always something, some guy putting half the team on the ground to try and fail to steal a kill, another guy jetting over to the other team's base on foot so he can fail to blow it up trying to make up for the deficit he's just made, that guy just sitting in an awful sightline whiffing all his shots when someone wanders into it, an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ troglodyte wandering back to spawn because his suit got a booboo while everyone else is trying to hold the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ line.
Performance, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Bandai's had four tries to get an actual server to host the matchmaking on and they've botched it every time. The game is peer-to-peer so there's nothing you can do about a laggy host, and the only consolation is that's all they have going for them. The menus stutter constantly when you're trying to scroll down to something you care about, because it loads in every suit you hover over and it does it terribly. There's no compensations like most free-to-play games, the store's barely functional if you're stupid enough to want to pay for rolls, and there's this nice little package of currency that was promised and made a big deal of, and then completely forgotten about.

It's really nice to see Mega Man X7 become a video game.

This is probably the most non-predatory F2P game I've tried and it's from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Konami. You can trade in cards you don't want to buy a specific one of the same rarity you want at a 3:1 rate, buying an Ultra Rare will get you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on its pack so you can roll for the rest of the archetype, and if your tenroll doesn't drop a UR you'll be guaranteed one on your next one. The tutorial's skippable for fast rerolls, there's no dailies besides starting up the game, no paywall, and the game just vomits gems at you. The most offensive thing I've seen is that archetype packs only unlock for 24 hours after getting an SR or UR from them, but that gets refreshed whenever you get a card from them.

I mean I love that I can actually buy these games without jumping through hoops, that Victory and L-Gaim are back, and I even get to use a Hucky again.
But how did they ♥♥♥♥ up Chin Requiem Juvenile so badly?

This game went all the way down to 92% off within the first month on Amazon Japan. It was designed to flop.
No matter what you do, it will sell poorly compared to how it did in Japan, and Bandai Namco will continue to disregard America and Steam for Gundam. As for the game itself, other people can no doubt explain the problems better than I can, but in short the only thing this has over its predecessors is Snatchaway, which isn't much if you don't like trashy J-Rock.
Please don't buy this hoping that it'll get their attention. Instead buy a PS3 and Gundam Breaker 2, if you have a bit of patience, or get Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition if you have a PS4.

Also, it's got Denuvo, for that extra ♥♥♥♥ you.

As an addendum, since I've spent some time playing this dumpster fire since writing this review, I've found that you can't punch people effectively. Not even if you use Shining Gundam arms. Let it die like it's begging to.

This game just doesn't work at all for me. It locks up at 50% loading for a while, and then goes on to let me in-game for a split second before completely locking up. I don't know if the gameplay is good, but I doubt it's worth closing every little thing, from Firefox to Windows Explorer, with it still not working, just so I can play it.

I mean my stuff is plenty good enough from what I can tell. I really have no clue what's wrong on what end, if the game hates NVidia cards or if my processor is actually made of jell-o or what. All I know is it shouldn't need nearly as much memory as it seems to want and that I think it has really bad memory leakage or whatever it's called when it just keeps using more.

EDIT: After posting this review, the game allowed me to play. I was then told I was going to be reported for AFKing after sharing my shock at this game actually working. So the community isn't exactly the highlight. The game's pretty un-fun, from the single match that actually worked. Movement feels off, you can't really restock on building supplies to make more healcrates and such, and the wooden bridge went rainbow, which was actually pretty fun to look at.

Very fun, and not very pay-to-win like all the reviews say.

The PvE story roughly follows the Dark Reign comics, with Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, creating the subtlely-named Dark Avengers, of which Bullseye is the best by far, in order to do something for someone, I don't know. He is opposed by Iron Man, Black Widow, Storm, Hawkeye, Wolverine, and Thor. It ends with a fairly high level boss fight, which can be easily beaten with stuns or heal abuse because it's a three-on-one curbstomp.

After that, you can go through weekly events against other players to earn more ISO-8, which is your experience, or Hero Points, which can get you more slots for more characters. Most of these events have restrictions or characters that get bonuses in stats, encouraging you to use them in your team and keep the characters you're not as interested in.

I haven't seen the pay-to-win much in my time of playing. Even if you buy ISO-8 and Hero Points, you're still going to have to keep up against people who have more experience with their characters than you and can set up teams with better gem coverage. And even if you get a full party of rare characters, they don't all work together as well as the lower level characters, and many of the three star characters have weaknesses to their powers, such as Iron Man Model 40's Recharge, which provides gems to use on other attacks, but stuns Iron Man for two turns.

Overall, I enjoy this a good bit, and recommend it to others.